Whoever got into the @NASAKepler account pinned a tweet featuring a fetching derriere in red panties and a porn spam link. It may seem like a strange choice of accounts to break into, but with more than 500,000 followers, Kepler’s Twitter is a pretty juicy target.

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Jay Hathaway is a former senior writer who specialized in internet memes and weird online culture. He previously served as the Daily Dot’s news editor, was a staff writer at Gawker, and edited the classic websites Urlesque and Download Squad. His work has also appeared on nymag.com, suicidegirls.com, and the Morning News.